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[quigonejinn]

Stronger (Harder, Better, Faster)

Tony Stark set to Kanye West and Daft Punk
XVid, 35MB

The song is on my default playlist, and last week, in the throes of full-blown fandom crazy, I started obsessing about what a fantastic track this would make for an Iron Man vid. And then one of the DOOMTHREADS -- it is 4:30AM, and I am too brainfried to figure out where, even with Gmail's halfway decent search engine -- somebody mentioned wanting to see it. And uh. I was too tired to write tonight, so here! HAVE MY OBSESSION.

Started at 10PM or so of Friday night, finished around 4AM of Saturday morning. Not much in the way of movie-independent storytelling, which is probably why it came together so easily. It usually takes me about eight hours per minute, but I banged this together in way, way under that. Think more like a 5:20 recap of the movie than anything else.

Comments

[dafnap.livejournal.com]

I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU SO HARD RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT EVEN APPROACHING HEALTHY.

OMFG. Terrence's lil' grimace on the plane set to the beat! I FUCKING LOVE YOU

"You can be honored by my lateness" as Tony finally shows up. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

Oh man, matching the echoing feedback to him waking up during the surgery: I FUCKING LOVE YOU

Smithing to the BEAT. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

And then the progress bar and power drain to the voice fading halfway through. I FUCKING LOVE YOU

AND THE END. WITH THE PRESS. THE END IS GENIUS.

DOOMTHREAD FOREVER.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

DOOMTHREAD FOREVER. BUT BED FOR BOTH OF US.

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I AM ABOUT TO LEAVE FOR WORK BUT DUDE WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE MY HERO FOREVER. YOU DID IT. YOU DID THE THING I HAD IN MY HEAD ONLY BETTER AND HOLY HELL. NYUAGDBHJVANUKGSLBNVAILDUKFJCNlaubchnbljkagncblvuknsdaklNLBHNLVJFDAHJAD

[gabby-silang.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AND IT'S PERFECT. IT'S LIKE. IT'S PERFECT. I. I DON'T EVEN HAVE WORDS, DUDE. UASDNGAIFLUGHFULAV. IT IS 5:30AM AND THIS IS PERFECT.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

GODDDDDD UP AT 5:30 FOR WORK ON A SATURDAY? THAT'S CRIMINAL.

(There are a couple places that make me do the GAAAAAH, WHY DIDN'T I JUST SIT ON THIS UNTIL I WAS ABLE TO WORK ON IT IN THE MORNING? Talking heads! Badly synched jumps! Etc, etc. I am glad it was good morning distraction for you, though.)

[obsession-inc.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT. I am up way too early and this is the first thing I found and now I have watched it, um, four times?

NICE. You catch those vulnerable looks so, so well. And the DICE, perfect timing. And hahahahhaha at "secretary and the boss", boom, shot of Pepper to shot of Tony.

Mostly, just GAH, the shot of Yinsen dying right before Tony lands in Gulmira, a very clear reminder of his reasoning there. And just the whole thing, the repeated looks at Tony's worst moments of vulnerability and his response to it (GIANT ROBOT SUIT), I just love it.

HAHAHAHAHAHA your dedication! Awwww. Get some sleep.

[jamaillith.livejournal.com]

sdaghajdkfc;sd; best thing ever.

[subduction.livejournal.com]

AWESOME. I'm downloading but will have to watch later, as I have to rush off to work, and more generally, I've been having a retarded few weeks and haven't been able to keep up with your Iron Man shenanigans at all (although everything is on the list -- I'd kind of like to see the movie again first). But when I saw this I lollerskated, since it reminded me of the idea I'd had three weeks ago -- not to hijack the thread here, or anything -- about setting an Octavian vid to this song. (I don't think that idea actually went any further than "ahahaha we could totally cut Octavia/Servilia footage with Octavian looking smoldering to I'D DO ANYTHING FOR A BLONDE DYKE", but then, most of my ideas don't.)

My point, actually, is that this looks 231574501x awesomer than any kind of wretched vid I'd've dreamed of making to this song, and I really can't wait to watch it when I get back. <333333333333

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

"ahahaha we could totally cut Octavia/Servilia footage with Octavian looking smoldering to I'D DO ANYTHING FOR A BLONDE DYKE"

OH.

MY.

GOD.

OH MY GOD.

In other words, yes. I think you win at Stronger. And I'm sorry that the weeks have been retarded -- but hey, at least the SGA MAMMOTH FIC is off to the beta?

[heidi-wiggin.livejournal.com]

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

OUR OBSESSION, LET US ROLL IN IT!

Faaaaaabulous.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

*ROLLS IN IT, COVERS SELF*

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,
You have no idea who I am, but I found this linked on del.icio.us and just wanted to say that I thought you did a great job. Love the movie, love the song, love the video. Thanks.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it. :D

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Wonderful - you've got the mood perfectly.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

The song just tails so well with the movie, really. :D

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

Here via dafnap, and OMFG I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. I adore the song, and it's such a perfect match to the movie. Thank you for sharing this!

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

GOD. When I started this vid, I was freaking out over how the eff to do the black Kate Moss bit -- Rhodey as Kate Moss? DDDDDD: -- but I think the Christine Everhart from the back bit works reasonably well.

And yeah. HBFS was my favorite Daft Punk song for years, and after finding the Kanye West remix of it, I basically listened to nothing else for a solid week. It was kind of obsessive. XD

[toastandtea.livejournal.com]

You. are. amazing. With this plus the last vid (AHGAFD IRON MAN SET TO FOLK MUSIC, ALL-TIME WIN) and all your kickass fic i just... i'm happy that you exist? Yes. And seriously, making vids from goddamn CAM FOOTAGE (AND MAKING IT LOOK GOOD) (FROM A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!!!!) is so commendable i can't even express it. You're like a war hero or something.

In any case. The song is friggin perfect and i'm so glad it's a song i love anyway (cause you know how painful it is to have good vids set to bad music) and THE EDITS. 100% awesome. When Tony's getting in the suit and the mask comes down over his face! Oh, oh, in the cave with Mark I when the progress bar completes and the lights dim! It all plays so WELL. Love love love it.

You guys are never gonna let me get over Iron Man, are you. SIGH. WHY SO AWESOME.

[plasticity.livejournal.com]

(FROM A BUNCH OF SCRAPS!!!!)

this should be, like, quigonejinn's vidding motto, or something. cause it made me chortle for quite some time. :-D

[besyd.livejournal.com]

[drops to knees before you, bows, and chants I'm not worthy] Just. WOW! [is your fangirl]

Everything everyone has already said about the synching, but the one that jumped out at me the most (don't ask me why) was where Rhodey found him in the workshop, turns him over, and Tony reaches up and grabs his arm. Perfect timing for that beat! Perfect! (If this were on tape, I'd probably have broken it right there by now for having replayed and replayed and replayed.)

And haHA! The dedication at the end! Even if I am a newb to the group and still kinda on the fringe, it made me do a happy dance. I'm truly in love with my new friends. :^D

Now, can I ask what you use for vidding? It's something I've always wanted to do, and I've become totally obsessed with finally learning for this movie. (I have a lesson scheduled at the Apple store tomorrow, just to get my feet wet.)

Thank you, thank you for this!

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Adobe Premiere Elements. I'm too stupid to figure out how to use the full, non-short bus version of Adobe Premiere, and Elements pretty much does everything I want it to do.

I export as DV-AVI, then encode to DivX with Easy Xvid. (I'm a PC user.)

And aha. Dude, I don't think this corner of IM fandom is well-established enough to have newbies and oldbies. I mean, my God, the movie only came out last month. >:0

[nextian.livejournal.com]

... aw, apparently I'm the only person not to get EATEN BY THE DOOM THREAD who actually saw this vid. completely devoid of reading comprehension, and also, threadfollowing. But It's fucking fantab. Even if I still do have to cover my eyes every time we get to the shot of Tony on the couch with Obadiah ripping his heart out; I had Kanye to get me through it.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

GOD. That scene still makes me wince, and I've vidded the hell out of it for two separate things. Poor Tony. I mean, talk about betrayal scenes.

[gottalovev.livejournal.com]

that video is absolutely FANTASTIC.

I'LL have to watch it on repeat. awesome.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of entertainment value. :D

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

...ohmigod. This is brilliant ♥

(I stumbled upon your LJ from happy happy linkhopping for Iron Man goodies and man, not only do you write pretty damn awesome fic, you also vid?? Hot damn *_*)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

AHAHA. Well. I haven't written fic in a while now, and we'll see if I ever get over the CRIPPLING ANXIETY caused by reading liviapenn and beta'ing (IE: pre-fangirling) obsession_inc, SO WE'LL SEE ON THAT END.

But I'm glad you enjoyed. :)

[jcase.livejournal.com]

That was made of WIN! You are so cool.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

I only borrowit from Kanye. :D

[buckle-berry.livejournal.com]

i am literally making this face



the song is so perfect and the synching, omg! favourite part hands down is the shot of yinsen dying followed straight after by iron man landing with a thump in gulmira, gah, i love. i must now watch this another 45 times, brb.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

XD I'll admit to being pretty pleased with that snippet. And, if I may, I'd like to point out the little robot voice saying NEVER OVER. NEVER OVER. NEVER OVER. while Yinsen kicks the bucket.

Thanks for the comment. I kept grinning all afternoon when I read it, and I'm :DDD'ing now.